Susan Ikenberry, the fund development director at Fairchild, said that it's always exciting for the hospital to have the first baby born in 2014 in the county. Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta had not yet had a baby born by the time Cai arrived on Saturday afternoon.

"It's a wonderful way to start the year by celebrating the birth of the first baby born," in 2014, Ikenberry said.

Derek Biddle said that Cai left the hospital on Sunday and that they were very excited to bring her home.

"She's doing pretty well," he said. "We're happy." As is typical with being parents of a newborn, Biddle said that he did not get much sleep the first night back home and said that that aspect of parenthood will be an adjustment and will hopefully get better.

Biddle said they were quite surprised when they were told their daughter was the first baby born for the year in Siskiyou County and said he assumed that a baby had been born earlier.

Fairchild Medical Center and the Fairchild Medical Center Foundation presented the new parents with a gift basket that included the baby's footprint to be placed on the Footprint to the Future Wall at Fairchild. Other items in the basket included blankets, crib sheets, stuffed animals, a diaper bag, diapers, and a baby outfit.

There are more than 100 footprints of babies born at the hospital currently on the wall, with parents having the option of purchasing a footprint to remember the occasion by.

The first baby born in 2013 arrived on Jan. 1 at 5:50 a.m. Robert Craig Ettleman was born to Brandon and Jenna Ettleman of Yreka at Fairchild Medical Center. He weighed in at 7 pounds, 6 ounces.